Falmer Complaints Start

[The Oldman]

Mr/Mrs Durrant is assuming a lot!


From Saturday's Argus.

I am 80. More than 65 years ago my two mates and I used to walk from just below the Race Hill in Bear Road to the Goldstone ground in Hove to support our Albion.

We were a reasonable third division side in those days and now, 65 years on, we are still a third division side (ie below the Premier, Championship and First Division).

I have been to see the new stadium at Falmer. It’s enormous. My heart goes out to the residents of that beautiful, peaceful, historic village.

Football stadiums we accept as a necessity but to incorporate pop concerts with all the noise, traffic and drunken hooliganism potentially going on into the early hours is not acceptable by any standards.

Let’s hope Brighton police will be keeping a close eye on future engagements for, as we all know, money rules everything.

DR Durrant
Rustic Road, Peacehaven

 

[Common as Mook]

 

[Lady Whistledown]

"My two mates"

Do eighty year old ladies use the term "mates"?

Seems a bit unlikely to me.

 

[Stat Brother]

'my two mates', I don't think so.

 

[sydney]

since when do open air concerts go on to the early hours ffs.........get a life(yours will be over soon)

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

I thought the opportunity to stage music events was very very limited as part of the planning approval?

 

[Twinkle Toes]

Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Falmer is so enormous, in fact, it holds 7,000 fewer people than the Goldstone did in the first few years I was watching, and about 14,000 fewer than the record Goldstone attendance.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

When they first dug a big hole to start the construction of the new ground they should have invited all those who were against it to come visit the site.

Next thing would have been to PUSH ALL THOSE MOANING TWATS IN THE HOLE and concrete it over.

Then they wouldn't have to worry about a bit of noise anymore.

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

The current planning consent for the stadium stipulates a max of 50 outside events per annum (including football games) of which only two may be music concerts. These have to finish by 11pm and the maximum permitted noise levels are also specified in the planning consent; these requirements were never challenged by the FPC, or anyone else, at the B&HCC Planning Committee meeting that approved the revised stadium plans so I assume the local representatives and their constituents are OK with them?

 

[Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews]

there are gonna be a lot of dissapointed people when nobody pisses in the pond.

 

[bhaexpress]

Yes of course drunken behaviour has always been a problem with both Goldstone and Withdean crowds, it's just that you very rarely see it.

 

[beorhthelm]

did the wrtier have a point? are they under the illusion that the stadium is only that size so that it can accomedate pop concerts?

and where is the beautiful, peaceful, historic village refered to they obviously cannot mean the village of Falmer, adjacent to two university campus's and a dual carriageway.

 

[skipper734]

Where was Mr Durrant when the beautiful Village of Falmer was cut in two by a dual carriage way, three Universities and all the associated drunken student hooliganism, along with the odd squatter from the University happened. :US:
He obviously can't appreciate beauty as he would see that the completed Stadium would add an attractive building too Brighton, something that has not happened in his lifetime.

 

[tube train]

Where was Mr Durrant when the beautiful Village of Falmer was cut in two by a dual carriage way, three Universities and all the associated drunken student hooliganism, along with the odd squatter from the University happened. :US:
He obviously can't appreciate beauty as he would see that the completed Stadium would add an attractive building too Brighton, something that has not happened in his lifetime.

this reply should be sent to the argus for them to print.... would put a few people in their place

 

[Curious Orange]

Must be a slow news day...

 

[Tooting Gull]

Someone should publish a book with all the worst letters to the Argus about the Albion in the last decade. Funnier than Michael McIntyre...

 

[Gwylan]

Funnier than Michael McIntyre...

But a book about the Black Death would be ...

 

[Joe Pineapples]

Someone should publish a book with all the worst letters to the Argus about the Albion in the last decade. Funnier than Michael McIntyre...

Getting your knob caught in your zipper is funnier than Michael McIntyre.

 

[Perry's Tracksuit Bottoms]

Dear Argus,

I went to watch the Albion once, some time before 1945.

I have trouble counting to three.

I have trouble with my hearing. I am 80 after all.

I resent anyone younger than me potentially enjoying themselves.

Any incidences of potential enjoyment should be stamped out by the police.

Thanks for printing my letter, noone else ever listens.

Yours etc.